

He asks the question Is Patience really a game or merely a glorified puzzle? "Game" normally implies some form of competition between players, which of course is absent from a solitary pursuit. There is a detailed history of the game here at Dave Parlett's Historic Card Games. Often, a group of friends or family or players in a geographical area will come up with their own rules. There are plenty of other styles of the game with names like accordian, clock, colorado, florentine solitaire, flower garden, labyrinth, penguin and triple peaks solitaire. The most popular solitaires are klondike, freecell, spider, golf, pyramid and yukon. There are more kinds of single player solitaire than all other card games together. In England this one player card game is known as patience, while Solitaire is the American name.The aim of the game in klondike solitaire is to build all four suits up from Ace to King in separate piles at the top right corner.The topmost card on the discard stack can be dragged to a tableau column if the topmost one on the tableau pile is an alternate color and an immediately higher rank, for example, the 6 of clubs can be dragged to the top of the 7 of diamonds or the 7 of hearts. The four foundations are initially left empty.īefore moving to the foundations, the cards can be placed on the tableau piles. One upturned card is dealt to the top of each tableau column, then three upturned cards will be dealt to the discard stack and the remaining downturned cards become the stock, which is placed at the top left corner next to the discard stack. The game starts with seven tableau columns containing an ascending number of downturned cards from left to right.

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Players who wish to play that only Kings may fill empty Columns are free to restrict themselves to that rule.In this classic patience game, you are given a deck of 52 standard playing cards, and your task is to move all of them to four foundations at the top right corner by suit from Ace to King. 's philosophy is to be liberal with the rules. Many people also play that only Kings may fill empty Columns.

's version of Double Klondike allows for any card(s) to be placed in empty Columns. Some variants of Double Klondike have 8 Foundations, may provide this variation at some point in the future. Game Notesĭouble Klondike is a Double deck variant of the standard Klondike game. When a card from the Discard Pile is played then the new top card can also be played. Only the top card of the Discard Pile may be played elsewhere. When no cards remain in the Stock, the cards from the Discard Pile can be flipped over and gone through an unlimited number of times. StockĬards from the Stock are flipped three at a time to the Discard Pile. When a face down card is the topmost card in a Column, it is flipped face up.Įmpty Columns may be filled with any card or cards that may be validly moved. The topmost card in any Column is available for play to either another Column or a Foundation. No cards may be built upon Aces in Columns. It is acceptable to move the black Jack and following cards to another red Queen. For example, suppose a Column has a red Queen, black Jack, red 10, and black 9. For example, a red 6 may be placed on a black 7.Īny grouping of face up cards in Columns is available for movement to another Column as long as the build rules are followed. ColumnsĬolumns are built DOWN in ALTERNATING COLOR. Then the second Ace of Clubs may be played on the King of Clubs, then the 2, 3, etc. For example, a 2 of Clubs can be placed on an Ace of Clubs, then a 3 of Clubs, then a 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, up to the K of Clubs. After each Foundation has its first King then the other Ace of that suit can be played on the King and the second group of A through K may be played to the Foundation. Foundationsįoundations are built UP and IN SUIT starting with an Ace and continuing on to a King. The 1st Column is dealt 1 card, the 2nd Column is dealt 2 cards, etc up to 9 cards in the 9th Column. Using two decks, 45 cards are dealt to the nine Columns. Move all cards to the four Foundation piles in the same suit.
